Corporate digital strategy—whether it involves the cloud, the Internet of Things or other technologies—has presented new opportunities for infrastructure engineering. The infrastructure engineer, traditionally relegated to hardware provisioning and maintenance, is now an integral part of solution design and delivery. But this shift entails new expectations along with new demand.The shift towards cloud-based, software-defined infrastructure requires today’s infrastructure engineer to marry traditional, specialized depth in a technology tower (e.g., network) with architectural breadth across towers. That doesn’t mean a network engineer needs equivalent expertise in storage and hosting technologies, but it does mean engineers have to understand how network, storage and hosting technologies (as well as software) interact and integrate to deliver a business outcome. As more core engineering activities in each tower become automated, engineers will become more focused on the configuration and orchestration of technologies to deliver seamless service performance.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Mark Tonsetic